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ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- A Silver Spring man was found guilty of stabbing two people while they were waiting for their bus at the Rockville Metro station in December 2014.

Reginald Cooper, 38, was convicted Wednesday on two counts of attempted second degree murder.

"The public should rest assured that this major offender is off the streets. He stabbed two innocent by-standers waiting to take their bus to their English class at 6 a.m. on a weekday morning and were stabbed within inches of death. And now their assailant could be put behind bars for a substantial part of his adult life. We look forward to the maximum sentence in this matter," Maryland State's Attorney John McCarthy said in a statement.

Cooper is scheduled to be sentenced on September 25. He faces up to 60 years in prison.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- After months and months of resistance from some Rockville homeowners, utility crews for Pepco were able to cut down some trees they believe threatened power lines, but not without help from an unlikely source.

To help them cut down the trees Thursday, Pepco hired a security escort to make sure homeowners didn't get in the way.

"What we'd done in the past is when they'd go up in the trees and start cutting, three, four, five, eight, nine, whatever, would get under the trees and we'd say go away and they would," Donn Layne, a homeowner said.

But the security escort blocked that strategy.

"They barricade the whole area. We couldn't do anything. with the policemen around there. we're losing it," Howard Siemers said. "You've got enough people annoyed that they have to bring police protection in to do this - there's something wrong."

ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- A Montgomery County teenager died in the back of an ambulance Saturday morning, just hours after police say she was raped by her 16-year old ex-boyfriend outside the county circuit courthouse in Rockville.

According to court documents obtained by WUSA9, the victim had gone to see a movie in downtown Rockville with her ex-boyfriend, 16-year old Marquiz Turner on Friday night.

After the movie got out, a security guard at the nearby courthouse noticed what appeared to be an assault happening against the wall of the building. He alerted two sheriffs' deputies, who disrupted an alleged rape in progress.

(WUSA 9 is naming Marquiz Turner because he now faces rape charges as an adult. WUSA 9 does not identify victims of sexual assault.)

ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- The man accused of murdering his neighbors in Rockville was transported from Alaska Friday night and is being held without bond in Montgomery County.

Earlier this week, Court officials said Montgomery County Police officers picked up Scott Tomaszewski from Alaska, where he has been held since his arrest aboard a cruise ship docked in Juneau. He waived his extradition during a court hearing there.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- A case of active tuberculosis was recently confirmed at Rockville High School, the school announced Tuesday in a letter to parents.

The school says there is no risk of additional exposure to staff or students, and the chances anyone was infected with TB as a result of the case is small.

Because of the case, the Montgomery County health department is recommending students and staff who had class or an after school activity with the individual between February 2015 and May 2015 get tested for TB. Parents of children who are indicated for testing will receive a letter in the mail next week, the school says.